EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday (28 October) and Friday are to rubberstamp the bloc's negotiating position for the international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, later this year.
Hopes for a global deal on greenhouse gas emissions remain slim after last December's acrimonious UN talks in Copenhagen.
But EU environment ministers earlier this month already signalled Europe's willingness to commit to a second Kyoto Protocol commitment period, provided certain conditions a...
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